Young couple Bill and Mary Astor have to live on a farm in Kansas in order to collect a full inheritance from Bill's recently deceased Aunt Emily. Director Herk Harvey, who also plays Bill with appealing earnestness, basically uses the premise to provide a nice and illuminating overview of both the history of Kansas and its most notable landmarks: Besides a rundown on John Brown (gotta love that amazing painting!), we also get to see the wide open spaces of Kansas in all their breathtaking verdant splendor as well as striking shots of wheat fields, salt marshes, rock formations, military posts, capitol buildings, and buffalo herds. Robust narrator James Lantz rattles off a lot of neat facts. The slushy score is a bit much, but overall this rates as a lovely travelogue of the 34th state.
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